Tomáš Tichý obtained a master and Ph.D. degree in Finance at VSB-Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic. Currently, besides giving lectures in Financial Modeling or Financial Markets he serve as an Editor in Czech Journal of Economics and Finance, which has been indexed by SSCI of Thomson Reuters for several decades, and Editor-in-Chief in Central European Review of Economic Issues.

His research includes solving of quantitative problems in pricing,

replication, and hedging of financial derivatives, financial decision making under risk, replication and hedging methodologies under incomplete markets, stochastic processes, and Monte Carlo simulation. At the beginning of his career, he has been invited to take part in two rounds of EU OptFin workshops sponsored through EC grant with the task to encourage young European researchers.

The list of his publications includes more than 100 items, including several books and many papers in refereed journals. He regularly presents the result of his research at international conferences all over the world. He is a member of Euro Working Group on Financial Modeling and in 2010 organizes one its semi-annual meetings in Prague, Czech Republic.